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South Korea: culture and development

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 3 October 2006 5:01 GMT

R. Elgin in Marmot's hole blogs about the Seoul city plan to build a five-story shopping mall in Isa-dong district (an old district near the palace. Elgin concludes that “the message from Seoul City Government seems simple: Money = Korean culture. “

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